New Mexico officials admit denying food to hungry families with less than $100
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Five state workers said they were pressured by their superiors to do so.
According to KTRK, five workers at the state’s Human Services department told a federal court that they falsified records to claim that families applying for food assistance had more than $100 in assets
When the workers could not meet the seven-day deadline for processing emergency applications, they said that records were falsified to reject the requests.
“It makes the state’s numbers appear artificially high, as if they were processing things according to law,” New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty’s Sovereign Hager told KTRK. “When in fact, they aren’t.
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.